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Nigeria police say at least 50 killed in mosque bombing

Tuesday, 21 November 2017, 14:03 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A teenage suicide bomber detonated as worshippers gathered for morning prayers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 50 people, police said Tuesday, in one of the region's deadliest...

Charles Manson has endured as the face of evil for nearly 50 years

Tuesday, 21 November 2017, 08:49 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Other killers snuffed out far more lives than Charles Manson did in 1969. Yet he has endured for nearly a half century as the personification of evil, even in an age in which mass shootings leave...

German government talks collapse; Merkel seeks to reassure

Monday, 20 November 2017, 08:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged early Monday to maintain stability after the Free Democratic Party pulled out of talks on forming a new government with her conservative bloc and the...

Charles Manson, whose cult slayings horrified world, dies

Monday, 20 November 2017, 08:04 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles...

Pope devotes Mass to poor, calls indifference a 'great sin'

Sunday, 19 November 2017, 18:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Celebrating Mass with poor people in the splendor of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis on Sunday denounced those who dismiss poverty as "not my business" and defined indifference to the needy as a...

Updated: Notorious Mafia 'boss of bosses' Toto Riina dead at 87

Friday, 17 November 2017, 08:46 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Mafia 'boss of bosses' Salvatore 'Toto' Riina has died in the hospital while serving multiple life sentences as the mastermind of a bloody strategy to assassinate Italian prosecutors and law...

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